Wednesday, July 19, 2017

WASSCE 2017 results; The statistics

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who took the 2017 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates (WASSCE).Statistics

A total of 289,210 candidates entered for the examination.

This figure is 5.45% higher than the 2016 candidature of 274,262.

The 2017 entry figure was made up of 147,591 (51 %) males and 141,619 (49 %) females.

The examination was conducted for 916 participating schools.

A total of 1,732 {0.60%) of the candidates who registered were absent from the examination.

The performance of the candidates in regard to the four core subjects are as follows:

Based on the provisional results, the performance at A1-C6 in Mathematics showed a marked improvement over that of 2016 (32.83% to 42.73%), while English Language recorded a slight improvement (53.19% to 54.06%). On the contrary, Integrated Science showed slight drop from the 2016 performance (48.48% to 43.66%).

Similarly, there was a drop in the performance in Social Studies (54.93% to 52.25%).